I have the feeling that fundamental things are changing and whether they are changing for the better only the future will decide.
Here’s just a few of the things that are changing for us as a business:
- The way we interact – this now is predominantly phone calls and MS Team meetings
- The way we do business travel – there isn’t any but that will change when all this is over, but will it be the same? Will we go back to having to make so many journeys that screw up the planet?
- The way we bank – although that’s be changing for some for a long time, I can see massive changes in this sector
- The way people are viewed – in the UK Mike Ashley (Sports Direct) and Tim Martin (JD Wetherspoons) and even Richard Branson didn’t cover himself, or Virgin, in glory by asking for a bail out given he’s a multi billionaire.
These are just a few of the things that could change forever in the business world, and rightly so, maybe it’s the order of things to change every once in a while, it’s happened many times throughout history.
Has it taken a global pandemic to waken us all up to the fact that things need to change, but are we listening? We will see!
As a business we rely on getting people in a room for our training, as most training companies do at the moment, but could that change? Maybe something like AR could help, my feeling is its not too well developed for that just yet. At the moment nothing beats the interactions of people in a room, for now.
Maybe we will see a rise in AR similar to what MS Teams and Zoom have experienced for meetings, who knows.
A lot of this is guess work as we don’t really know what will happen as things return to normal, whatever that is or was. But I have the feeling this pandemic has caused not only pain and misery but also hope… hope that we can change and find different and better ways to communicate so we can make a difference to the planet and each other.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on the changes we are all witnessing.
It’s a long read but this is a great piece on how society is changing during this pandemic. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/31/how-will-the-world-emerge-from-the-coronavirus-crisis
